> What is the reason that it can not cover more than 2TB? A 32-bit block number with 512-byte blocks. This multiplies out to 2TB. > By the way you are able to use more than 2TB, ~2.3TB??? > Why? 2TB binary is 2.2TB decimal (2,199,023,255,552). You shouldn't be able to get 2.3TB without the patch. > > > Hi, I am setting up hardware raid with 7 harddrives on redhat linux. > > > I use 3ware + hardware raid 5, each harddrive is 200G. For > > > linux, this raid sould act as a 1.2TB scsi hard drive. But it seems > > > redhat could not reconize it. I am wondering may be a 1.2TB hard drive > > > is too large to linux. So my question is: what't > > > the maxium disk capacity Linux can support? There is a problem with the RedHat installation scripts. When performing a Kickstart install, and using the Grub boot loader, disks are limited to 1TB (binary). Is this the problem you encountered? Good luck. Peter Ashford - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
